Giving or Receiving Something for Sex: A Cross-Sectional Study of Transactional Sex among Ugandan University Students

Choudhry, Vikas; Östergren, Per-Olof; Ambresin, Anne‐Emmanuelle; Kyagaba, Emmanuel; Agardh, Anette

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“…Other Studies with Some Data on Women as Buyers of Sex from Men Seven public health-oriented studies that examined various groups' sexual behaviors, including transactional sex, provided some data on women as buyers of sex from men (Choudhry, Ostergren, Ambresin, Kyagaba, & Agardh, 2014;Embleton et al, 2015;Haley, Roy, Leclerc, Boudreau, & Boivin, 2004;Lion, Watt, Wechsberg, & Meade, 2017;Meekers & Calvès, 1997;Reilly, Neaigus, Wendel, Marshall Iv, & Hagan, 2014;Wagner, Pitpitan, Chavarin, Magis-Rodriguez, & Patterson, 2013).…”

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Women Who Trade Sexual Services from Men: A Systematic Mapping Review

Berg

Molin

Nanavati

2019

The Journal of Sex Research

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Self-portrait of a young man for rent', by Sterry (2002), is a memoir of the author's experiences working as a teenage gigolo with a primarily female clientele in the early 1970s. Sterry recounts the circumstances leading up to his situation, characterized by desperation, need for love, and sexual assault. According to a recent comparative study (McCarthy, Benoit, & Jansson, 2014), both immediate circumstances like limited education, and negative experiences from early life, especially childhood poverty, abuse and family instability, are independently associated with adult sex work. According to reviews, paid male sexual services are largely invisible in the global sex trade, but in growing demand. Dennis (2008) concluded that in Western countries, more adolescent boys than adolescent girls participate in sex exchange for money, and men comprise about 20-30% of the individuals arrested as vendors of sexual services each year. Recently, a content analysis of 499 male escort websites across 60 countries found that while most escorts advertise to other men, 11% of the sites were specifically for female clients and 10% for heterosexual couples (Kumar, Minichiello, Scott, & Harrington, 2017). Another website survey found comparable numbers (Scott & Minichiello, 2017). Similarly, Lee-Gonyea, Castle, and Gonyea's (2009) review identified 17% of websites that advertised male escorts as catering to female clientele only and an ongoing study conducted in the UK found that 66% of escorts advertised to female clients (Smith & Kingston, in Kumar et al., 2017). Indications of a growing market for women who seek paid sexual services with men are not only found online. Since the 1990s, Japan has seen a rapid increase in the number of host clubsvenues where men work as hosts to 'entertain' a mostly migrant female clientelewith over 200 clubs in Tokyo alone (Mahdavi, 2018). The entertainment varies by club and location, but most hosts describe it as selling romance, love and sex to their clients (

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“…The last study was cross-sectional and included 1,084 university students in Uganda. Of the 6% of men who had ever sold sex, 4% had sold to women and 2% had sold to men (Choudhry et al, 2014).…”

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Women Who Trade Sexual Services from Men: A Systematic Mapping Review

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Molin

Nanavati

2019

The Journal of Sex Research

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“…Known in the Central Region of Uganda as okwegatta okwa "mpa-nkuwe" ("give me, I give you sex"), transactional sex relationships have been documented in both urban and rural contexts with young people, mainly AGYW, reporting involvement in such relationships for reasons including to obtain financial or material support; in response to emotions, desires and feelings; or as a result of implicit or explicit pressure to access consumer products or achieve social status. [23][24][25][26][27][28] Some AGYW also strategically engage in sexual relationships with older men, often known as "sugar daddies" as a means of securing resources. 25,28,29 Indeed, some AGYW describe agentive decisions to pursue relationships with older men in preference to younger men for a variety of reasons including financial benefit (as older men are perceived to have more wealth), emotional support (as older men are often perceived to be kinder) and meeting social expectations to keep up with the consumption of peers.…”

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Sexual health of adolescent girls and young women in Central Uganda: exploring perceived coercive aspects of transactional sex

Kyegombe

Meiksin

Wamoyi

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Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters

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Adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in Uganda are at risk of early sexual debut, unwanted pregnancy, violence, and disproportionally high HIV infection rates, driven in part by transactional sex. This paper examines the extent to which AGYW's participation in transactional sex is perceived to be coerced. We conducted 19 focus group discussions and 44 in-depth interviews using semi-structured tools. Interviews were audio recorded, and transcribed verbatim. Data were analysed using a thematic analysis. While AGYW did not necessarily use the language of coercion, their narratives describe a number of coercive aspects in their relationships. First, coercion by force as a result of "de-toothing" a man (whereby they received money or resources but did not wish to provide sex as "obligated" under the implicit "terms" of the relationships). Second, they described the coercive role that receiving resources played in their decision to have sex in the face of men's verbal insistence. Finally, they discussed having sex as a result of coercive economic circumstances including poverty, and because of peer pressure to uphold modern lifestyles. Support for income-generation activities, microfinance and social protection programmes may help reduce AGYW's vulnerability to sexual coercion in transactional sex relationships. Targeting gender norms that contribute to unequal power dynamics and social expectations that obligate AGYW to provide sex in return for resources, critically assessing the meaning of consensual sex, and normative interventions building on parents' efforts to ascertain the source of their daughters' resources may also reduce AGYW's vulnerability to coercion.

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“…Compared to other regions, youth in sub Saharan Africa (SSA) are at an increased risk of contracting HIV [ 6 ]. Alcohol use furthers this risk as it is linked to risky behavior such as casual and unprotected sex, transactional sex and multiple and concurrent sexual partnerships [ 1 – 4 , 7 , 8 ].…”

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Social space and alcohol use initiation among youth in northern Tanzania

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IntroductionAlcohol use is a key risk factor for disease worldwide. Consumption of alcohol is increasing in sub Saharan Africa, where youth are already at high risk of HIV due to its high prevalence in the region. Studies show that youth begin drinking alcohol early; however, there is a need to further explore the initiation of alcohol use in order to design appropriate interventions in this population.MethodsWe conducted a qualitative study with youth in Mwanza and Kilimanjaro regions in Tanzania to explore alcohol consumption among youth. Participants were a purposive sample of youth aged 15–24 composed of secondary school and college students, and formal and informal sector employees. We conducted 35 in-depth interviews using a semi-structured guide to understand youth’s personal experiences with alcohol consumption. Two social scientists conducted a multi stage, inductive analysis of the data.FindingsAlcohol consumption was reported to mainly start during adolescence, although in some cases it started as early as at 10 years of age. Young women reported drinking less, and initiated drinking later compared to males. Social space assumed a primary role in alcohol initiation. The social environment and influence of important social actors were key aspects of youth’s social space. Youth reported starting to consume alcohol at home, social events and in stressful environments with key influencers being parents, relatives, peers and intimate partners.ConclusionsOur findings show that the social space (social environment and interactions) plays an important role in influencing youth initial consumption of alcohol. Interventions addressing alcohol initiation among the population need to address the social spaces where initiation takes place and engage the significant actors in these spaces. There is need to further explore underlying societal drinking norms to better understand how they shape social environments and young people’s initiation of alcohol use.

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Giving or Receiving Something for Sex: A Cross-Sectional Study of Transactional Sex among Ugandan University Students

Cited by 27 publications

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Women Who Trade Sexual Services from Men: A Systematic Mapping Review

Women Who Trade Sexual Services from Men: A Systematic Mapping Review

Sexual health of adolescent girls and young women in Central Uganda: exploring perceived coercive aspects of transactional sex

Social space and alcohol use initiation among youth in northern Tanzania

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